GRE Word List
PENDULOUS
poised without visible support
The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| collected | gathered together |